Planned Parenthood: Murder for Hire

Over the past several months, the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) has released a number of video recordings of its undercover investigationof Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), the largest provider of abortions in the United States. This majoreffort has exposed yet another seamy underside to the business of death before birth: harvesting and selling the body parts of the children PPFA kills.

In this environment, Daleiden and Merritt spent 30 months investigating a deliberately concealed facet of the abortion industry: after-market salesof tissues and organs from aborted babies. It is strictly prohibited by federal and many state lawsbut widely practiced and monetarily highly profitable. Those willing to murder defenseless children do not scruple at legal prohibitions.

Sale of aborted baby body parts involves hugecustomers in the cosmetic and food industries. The investigative reporters, however, focused on the“medical” side of the resale industry, which craves the babies’ remains for “research” purposes. CMPdiscovered one big-money customer of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast in Houston was theUniversity of Texas Medical Branch, even obtaining an invoice as proof.

In hidden-camera interviews with numerousPPFA executives and other abortion industry representatives from around the country, Daleidenand Merritt posed as representatives of BioMax, a corporate entity established to give plausibility totheir cover story of seeking organs from aborted children for medical research. This shell entity’s fictitious activities were patterned after real-lifecompanies like StemExpress, LLC, which conducted a ghoulish, high-volume business purchasing abortedbaby parts from PPFA in California. StemExpress markets heavily to multiple PPFA affiliates. StemExpress has since severed ties with PPFA.

Two of the PPFA officials CMP encountered were Melissa Farrell, director of research at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast in Houston, andthat abortuary’s CEO, Melaney Linton. Both made gruesome admissions to Daleiden and Merritt thatappear to prove clearly the PPFA affiliate’s illegal involvement in trafficking human body parts, while explaining how they cover up the huge profit they make from the sales.

The videos caused instant outrage across thenation, and investigations of PPFA were begun by Congress and the Texas governor and lieutenantgovernor. The allegedly pro-life Harris Co., Texas district attorney Devon Anderson, convened a 12-person grand jury to look into PPFA Gulf Coast’s activities. But, incredibly, the grand jury handed outan indictment not against the perpetrators of suchhorrific evil but against the investigative reporters who exposed PPFA’s nefarious activities. Followingsignificant public outrage, Anderson issued a testy video statement defending the grand jury’sactions.

According to the website “LifeSiteNews.com,” Daleiden and Merritt were each accused of a “second-degree felony charge of ‘tampering with agovernmental record,’ and a misdemeanor charge for violating the state’s ‘prohibition of the purchaseand sale of human organs.’” A conviction could result in a 20-year prison sentence.

Over 100,000 people so far have petitioned thatcharges against the whistleblowers be dropped entirely. But even a fair trial may be a problem forthe accused, because of the massive amounts of money abortionists expend to keep public officialssupporting the extermination of the unborn. Finding an objective jury presents similar difficulties in liberal Houston.

PPFA receives over a half-billion dollars annually in taxpayer funding, so it has a huge interest in maintaining a strong influenceover politicians. Abortionists are known for their electoral campaign largesse toward sympatheticlawmakers, who then help keep open the sleazy murder mills, which typically do not maintain even the standards of outpatient surgical facilities.

Showing how desperate PPFA is to keep killingthe unborn, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund (PPAF) endorsed a presidential candidate for thefirst time: Hillary Clinton. It plans to expend $20 million supporting the campaign of a woman whoreportedly once told a pro-lifer, “God wants me to kill babies!”

How PPAF can do so and not risk its tax-exemptstatus as an allegedly “nonpartisan advocacy and political arm of Planned Parenthood Federation ofAmerica” is unknown. But it is a good question readers should ask the Internal Revenue Service and their representatives in Washington.

Ronald L. Ray is a freelance author and an assistant editor of THE BARNES REVIEW. He is a descendant of several patriots of the American War for Independence.